LiveCode 4.5.3 Released
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:29 pm
LiveCode 4.5.3 is now available for download. Representing our continuing commitment to creating the very best tools for iOS and all supported platforms and devices, this release brings you a slew of new iOS features, plus a substantial number of enhancements on mobile and desktop. Additionally, significant improvements have been made to multi-user installation and licensing.
If you have an active LiveCode 4.5 license, this is a free release for you, just download it from your account and activate using your account login details.
If you don't yet have a license or need to upgrade, you can purchase a new license here:
http://www.runrev.com/store/
or upgrade your existing license from within your account:
http://www.runrev.com/store/account/products/
New in this release:
New features:
- Ability to upload to FTP in iOS
- Support for ask question/ask password dialog on iOS
- Ability to detect when iOS keyboard shown/hidden
- Ability to configure iOS keyboard type and 'return-key' type
- Support for 'the httpHeaders' on iOS
- Support for looping video playback on iOS
- Support for making native browser controls translucent on iOS
- Vastly improved orientation support including proper iOS rotation animation
- Support for setting 'prerendered icon' option in plist
- Support for displaying themed large progress bar on Mac
- Support for datagrid on iOS (library now correctly included in standalones)
- Experimental support for multi-channel sound in iOS
- Experimental support for unbounded scroll values on groups (allowing easy implementation of bouncing on iOS)
- Experimental ability to display the standard dirty document mark in the close box on Mac
Improvements/Maintenance:
- scrolling with native scrollers on iOS now works correctly
- browser control now correctly displays all pages on iOS
- improved consistency of (vertical) font metrics with desktop Mac engine
- stackfiles now save properly on iOS
- last used simulator version/device now saved in preferences
- text output using pdf printing is now copyable on all platforms
- screenRects now works correctly on Linux
- in total over 30 bug-fixes and minor improvements
Other:
- command-line installation and activation for multi-user licenses
We hope you enjoy this latest iteration of LiveCode!
If you have an active LiveCode 4.5 license, this is a free release for you, just download it from your account and activate using your account login details.
If you don't yet have a license or need to upgrade, you can purchase a new license here:
http://www.runrev.com/store/
or upgrade your existing license from within your account:
http://www.runrev.com/store/account/products/
New in this release:
New features:
- Ability to upload to FTP in iOS
- Support for ask question/ask password dialog on iOS
- Ability to detect when iOS keyboard shown/hidden
- Ability to configure iOS keyboard type and 'return-key' type
- Support for 'the httpHeaders' on iOS
- Support for looping video playback on iOS
- Support for making native browser controls translucent on iOS
- Vastly improved orientation support including proper iOS rotation animation
- Support for setting 'prerendered icon' option in plist
- Support for displaying themed large progress bar on Mac
- Support for datagrid on iOS (library now correctly included in standalones)
- Experimental support for multi-channel sound in iOS
- Experimental support for unbounded scroll values on groups (allowing easy implementation of bouncing on iOS)
- Experimental ability to display the standard dirty document mark in the close box on Mac
Improvements/Maintenance:
- scrolling with native scrollers on iOS now works correctly
- browser control now correctly displays all pages on iOS
- improved consistency of (vertical) font metrics with desktop Mac engine
- stackfiles now save properly on iOS
- last used simulator version/device now saved in preferences
- text output using pdf printing is now copyable on all platforms
- screenRects now works correctly on Linux
- in total over 30 bug-fixes and minor improvements
Other:
- command-line installation and activation for multi-user licenses
We hope you enjoy this latest iteration of LiveCode!